This is my blog for John Harrison Photography, www.jharrisonphoto.com that my Yosemite, Big Sur, Lake Tahoe, Hawaii, Kauai and other things I like to photograph in the San Francisco Bay Area. Random fun things about places I have shot, want to shoot, upcoming photography shows, or my website will also be included!

Saturday, April 13, 2013

"Above the Fog" I love shots of San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge
but never had gotten the perfect shot with the Golden Gate Bridge
poking through the fog. I saw the weather report at 11:30pm the evening
before saying "your commute will be slow in the morning with low lying
fog across the Golden Gate Bridge" I thought PERFECT! I'll head up in a
few hours! I set out in the dark for the drive up to San Francisco to
shoot from the Marin Headlands.

The hike up the hill in the dark
and the fog with too much camera gear (30 pounds!) gave me a great early
morning workout! I arrived just as the sky was starting to have an
amazing glow and the fog was swirling beneath the bridge. I decided to
go for a longer exposure to capture the lights of the cars heading to
the Golden Gate Bridge. On the right side of the photo you can see some
cars heading along Conzelman Road. I just love the curves and swirling
fog together with the bumps in the hillside. There were quite a few
other photographers there including +Jim Patterson+Aaron Meyers+Joe Azure+Alan Chan+jared ropelato+Andrew Gilbert as well and I had an awesome time shooting and bonding while shooting! It only took me a month to process my image :-)

The
glow of the San Francisco lights, Car lights and Golden Gate Bridge and
colors in the sky balanced with the greens of the hill and fog are what
caught my eye. I went for a 1:2 panorama format for this which will
look great above a fireplace, couch or in an executive boardroom printed
30" x 60" or larger!

This a single shot from the Nikon D800,
Nikon 28-70mm f/2.8 lens (28mm), 30 seconds, f/13 and ISO 200. This is
processed in Lightroom 4 and post processing in Adobe Photoshop CS6. I
did not bring my Singh-ray neutral density filters on this trip but used
the awesome digital ND filters in LR4 - my favorite feature of LR4!

It
is always a crap shoot as it can be clear in the Southbay down in
Sunnyvale where I live and how the fog is in San Francisco. Sometimes
the fog is higher up and obscures everything and never clears! I
actually met +Jim Goldstein
the first time years ago hoping for a Golden Gate Bridge fog picture
and we waited for hours enveloped in fog!! Both of us were just waiting
and waiting while his dog was hanging out. That is part of the joy,
frustration and chase of great photographs - the weather and lighting
will NEVER be the same!!! (but meeting cool people when you are out is
another great benefit!)

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I am a Computer Security guy by day and Nature and Landscape photographer by night. I love shooting in Yosemite, Lake Tahoe, the California coastline and any other place around! John Harrison is a Nature and Landscape photographer living in the San Francisco Bay Area. I’m a landscape guy! I love chasing sunrises & sunsets, moon-rises and moon-sets, water in motion, waterfalls, and capturing vibrant colors and textures in nature. I try to capture the mood of the scene and love how the light interacts with the scene resulting in an image that just takes you there.

You can contact me through my John Harrison Photography website, Google+, my Facebook page, or email. My images are for sale to individual and healthcare and corporate collectors. You can see my images on display through many locations throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.